Category Archives: Diminution in Value

A legal term used when calculating damages in a legal dispute, and describes a measure of value lost due to a circumstance or set of circumstances that caused the loss.  Specifically, it measures the value of something before and after the causative act or omission creating the lost value in order to calculate compensatory damages.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminution_in_value)

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